Project Details
National Evaluation of One Community Partnership
Description
Initiated and funded through the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) and Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the One Community Partnership is a six-year project that involves the evaluation and redesign of the existing array of children's mental health services in Broward County. The redesign will include a comprehensive, coordinated system of care, driven by family voices that will sustain and support severely emotionally disturbed (SED) children in the least restrictive and most clinically appropriate environment.
One Community Partnership Service initiatives include the following:
*Developing a comprehensive, integrated, non-duplicative single "front-door" creating access to the system of care through both behavioral health and primary health care providers.
*Implementing a research-based model of intensive strength based wraparound services to prevent residential placement.
*Creating a drop-in center for older teens and enhance out-of-school child care and respite services to support local SED families.
*Using more effective data collection techniques as a stimulus for system wide continuous quality improvement activities.
*Developing a training institute to coordinate technical assistance and system-wide training.
*Providing social marketing strategies that will be used to promote and advertise the local children's mental health system of care and to facilitate better coordination and linkage between children's mental health and primary health care networks.
CFS will be responsible for the direction and implementation of all evaluation support activities related to the SAMHSA CMHS National Evaluation through a sub-contract with CSC. Evaluation, both in terms of the collection of data and its feedback to the community, is a critical feature of the One Community Partnership Project. Data collected for the national evaluation will be analyzed by CFS staff that they may be used to inform the decision making processes at all system's levels.